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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Interesting readings

Ronald
U. Mendoza has an article on voxEU which should ideally
trigger off similar research by political scientists in India,
about politics as a family business.

A
caucasus wedding, by an unnamed US foreign service
person. This is fascinating reading from two points of
view. First, I'd love to get the Wikileaks report about the same
wedding filed by the corresponding Indian diplomat. I fear our
guys are just not in the same league in terms of the quality of
despatches. And, there was something eerie in this story: it
reminded me of the socially backward subset of India.

Trampling on the individual in
India: A
response by Suw Charman-Anderson, on Firstpost, to Kapil
Sibal's dreams of tracking the location of every resident of
India. A country where the government knows less about citizens is
likely to be a country with
greater de
facto freedom of speechLearning
how to argue, an interview with Ran Yunfei by Ian Johnson in
the New York Review of Books. It's an interesting glimpse into
China. It's also relevant for India as we face a series of attacks
upon freedom of speech.

Haseeb
Drabu in Mint worries about the record 25 amendments
found in the Finance Bill that apply with retrospective effect.

How
to help the Syrians by Hugo Dixon. He talks about Why
civil resistance works by Erica Chenoweth and Maria
Stephan. This
is a
paper and a book. Put together, these give
you fresh insights into India's path to independance.

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